Gatsby Vocabulary 8 and 9

having a pleasant smell; fragrant

• redolent

• commensurate

• garrulous

• superfluous

a small entrance hall or anteroom; lobby

• vestibule

• divot

• humidor

• redolent

a humid place or container for storing cigars, tobacco, etc

• divot

• vestibule

• pasquinade

• humidor

happening by chance, esp. by a lucky chancec; unplanned; accidental

• fortuitous

• superfluous

• garrulous

• redolent

given to constant and frivolous chatter; loquacious; talkative; wordy or diffuse

• superfluous

• fortuitous

• commensurate

• garrulous

a piece of turf dug out of a grass surface, esp. by golf clubs or by horses' hooves

• redolent

• humidor

• divot

• vestibule

exceeding what is sufficient or required; not necessary or relevant

• garrulous

• superfluous

• fortuitous

• commensurate

an abusive lampoon or satire, esp. one posted in a public place

• humidor

• vestibule

• pasquinade

• divot

to infer (something) from incomplete or uncertain evidence

• commensurate

• surmise

• pasquinade

• garrulous

having the same measure, corresponding in amount, magnitude or degree

• fortuitous

• pasquinade

• superfluous

• commensurate